House Judaism
Hasmonean dynasty
שושלת החשמונאים he
Dynasty of the Judean region (140–37 BCE)
- Dated from 167 BCE
- Also called Asmonæans, Asmonaeans, Asmonæan dynasty
A family
on the record,
reign by reign.
Documented kin
Members · 11
The house, member by member
One family drawn as a tree, then every member, oldest first where a date is recorded.
What this means
People whose own records place them in this house. Membership of a house is a family fact. It is not a religious affiliation and not a right to any office. “Child of” appears where a member’s recorded parent is also in the house — a documented human family, the same kind of claim as membership, and nothing more. Imported from Wikidata: nothing here has been read by an editor.
2 children in the house
Every member
People whose own records place them in this house.
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Mariamne Iuntil 29 BCE · second wife of Herod the Great -
Judah Maccabee1st millennium BCE – 160 BCE · 2nd century BCE Jewish priest and leader of Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucids -
Simon Thassi2nd century BCE – 135 BCE · second son of Mattathias, the first prince (r. 141–135 BCE) of the Hasmonean dynasty of the Kingdom of Judea -
Aristobulus I2nd century BCE – 103 BCE · ruler of Hebrew Hasmonean Dynasty -
Jonathan Apphus2nd century BCE – 143 BCE · Leader of the Hasmonean dynasty from 161 to 143 BCE -
Salome Alexandrac. 140 BCE – 67 BCE · Queen regnant of Hasmonean Judaea from c.76 to 67 BCE -
Alexander Jannaeusc. 127 BCE – 76 BCE · second king of the Hasmonean dynasty of Judea -
Hyrcanus IIc. 110 BCE – 30 BCE · Child of Alexander Jannaeus -
Aristobulus IIc. 100 BCE – 49 BCE · Child of Alexander Jannaeus -
Antigonus II Mattathiasc. 80 BCE – 37 BCE · Child of Aristobulus II - Aristobulus III of Judea53 BCE – 36 BCE · last scion of the Hasmonean royal house
Succession
Offices held in the house
The members in each office, in order — a selection from the office’s whole line.
High Priest of Israel
- 9 holders
- 1 gap
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
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152 BCE – 143 BCE Jonathan Apphus Leader of the Hasmonean dynasty from 161 to 143 BCE -
143 BCE – 134 BCE Simon Thassi second son of Mattathias, the first prince (r. 141–135 BCE) of the Hasmonean dynasty of the Kingdom of Judea -
Gap about 30 years before the next in this house
104 BCE – 103 BCE Aristobulus I ruler of Hebrew Hasmonean Dynasty -
103 BCE – 76 BCE Alexander Jannaeus second king of the Hasmonean dynasty of Judea -
76 BCE – 66 BCE Hyrcanus II High Priest and king of Judea -
66 BCE – 63 BCE Aristobulus II Jewish High Priest and King of Judea, 66 BC to 63 BC - 63 BCE – 40 BCE Hyrcanus II High Priest and king of Judea
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40 BCE – 37 BCE Antigonus II Mattathias king of Judea - 36 BCE Aristobulus III of Judea last scion of the Hasmonean royal house
King of Judea
- 6 holders
- 1 gap
What this means
Who held an office after whom. Not parentage, not discipleship, and not universally recognised — offices are contested.
Does not imply recognition by every tradition · an uncontested claim · parentage · discipleship · an explanation of why the succession happened
Holding an office after someone says nothing about being related to them or taught by them. Where a line is also a family, both are on the holders’ own pages as separate sections.
A gap is a vacancy, an interregnum or a hole in the record; an overlap is rival claims or an office held by more than one at once. The records do not say which, so neither is resolved here. A gap shorter than two years sits inside the precision of year-dated records and is not marked. Only this house’s members are shown, so a gap between two of them may be a holder from outside it.
Why a succession happened is a historical argument. Where sources make one, it belongs in a reviewed connection with its citations — not in this order, and not in a predecessor field.
Recognition is never universal. Where a card names no recognising body, none is recorded — which is not the same as none.
Imported from Wikidata unless a card says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
- 104 BCE – 103 BCE Aristobulus I ruler of Hebrew Hasmonean Dynasty
- 103 BCE – 76 BCE Alexander Jannaeus second king of the Hasmonean dynasty of Judea
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76 BCE – 67 BCE Salome Alexandra Queen regnant of Hasmonean Judaea from c.76 to 67 BCE - 67 BCE – 66 BCE Hyrcanus II High Priest and king of Judea
- 66 BCE – 63 BCE Aristobulus II Jewish High Priest and King of Judea, 66 BC to 63 BC
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Gap about 23 years before the next in this house
40 BCE – 37 BCE Antigonus II Mattathias king of Judea
Chronology is not a full explanation
Why one member followed another takes evidence beyond the order of their dates. That both belonged to the house is not, on its own, that evidence.
Religious context · a separate claim
Affiliation
Counted from the members’ own statements — never the religion of anyone the house ruled.
What this means
Assembled from the members’ own statements, and counted. What a person was affiliated with, what a ruler paid for, what a state did and what a population practised are four separate kinds of claim. Only the first two are in the data at all, and they are kept apart here.
Affiliations recorded on members
An affiliation recorded by a third party, often for one period of a life. It is not the religion of anyone this house ruled.
Connections
How Hasmonean dynasty connects
Grouped by the kind of relationship, because a successor is not a son and a shared symbol is not an influence.
Affiliation 1
What this means
Association with a tradition or school. Traditions branch, overlap and re-merge; this is not a clean single-origin tree.
Does not imply personal belief at every point in a life · the practice of a population
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Transmission 1
What this means
Teaching passed from one person to another. Not biological ancestry and not automatic institutional succession.
Does not imply that the tradition began fully formed · that later adherents accept the attribution
Imported from Wikidata unless a tile says otherwise. Nothing here has been read by an editor.
Sources
Sources and evidence
Where every statement on this page comes from, and how each one stands.
2 statements on this record
- 2 Imported Taken from Wikidata as it stands. Nobody here has read it. 1 of them cite only Wikipedia: one source, counted once.
Only this record’s own statements. What other records say about it is counted on theirs.
Three layers, three licences
- Text
- Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0, quoted, not merged
- Pictures
- Wikimedia Commons · each file’s own terms
Review
Not yet read by an editor here. Every relationship on this page is an import.
Disagreements are kept, not resolved, and a count of sources is not a confidence score.
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